Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

He does. I think.

@Zuljaras OK OK you win, I’m sorry you’re not negative! COVID-19 is just a very touching subject for me and I don’t like it when people make fun of it.

So I've been alternating between unpacking my stuff I brought back from Japan, and sorting through the stuff I left in storage here in the states, and I came across my old iPod Nano 4GB, I believe it's the 1st gen nano. I got it back at the end of jr. high school over 15 years ago. Just out of curiosity I plugged it in to see if it would even turn on, and to my very pleasant surprise, it actually works. Looks like the last time I used it was about 6-7 years ago. But it spent the last solid 5 years at least in storage just in a box, not even properly packed away.

And it not only still works, my old music is all still there. Of course, I don't even have that iTunes account anymore. Still, I am very impressed that it survived. I am gonna keep it as a novelty/collectible.

Tired of blazing white screens on my monitor, I found a firefox add-on called Dark Reader. Seems ok here on NIntendoLife. By clicking on it's icon, I can customize it's darkness by adjusting contrast & brightness. Does anyone by chance use a dark mode browser add-on that they reccomend?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

@Heavyarms55 Does your Nano's battery life still seem decent?

@Heavyarms55 Wow that's cool. It's a pretty exciting feeling to find something missing that you've owned long ago. I used to have an iPod Touch back in my high school days.

Been awhile since I hopped into this thread, so how is it going chit-chatters? Quiet evening here so stopping by for a bit and just finished playing some Burnout Paradise.

This iPod talk reminds me, I still use a fourth generation nano. Battery life is still decent, just haven't used much over the years until recently.

This is the only iPod that survived being mine. I treasure it.

That cheap speaker goes so perfectly with it, I never remove it.

@BabyYoshi12 Yes I am giving it away.

It is perfectly fine if you do not want it

@Apportal Well it is one of my most NEGATIVE sides to make fun of Serious-Matter AND Anti-Matter as well. Just can't help it!

On the other hand the deadly virus has some positive sides for me. I work from home for the past 5 months and it seems like it will be like that for the rest of the year! I will not have to waste 2 hours every day of traveling which I hate!

@MarioLover92 I am toying around with grabbing Sonic Mania next time it goes on discount as I've heard that was a decent officially sponsored fan effort, but I'm still not 100% sold lol. Have you played that one?

@Heavyarms55 I was very pleased that I stuck with the Colony 6 reconstruction as there were a couple of points where searching and grinding for certain items became a chore (Those Rainbow Slugs...ugh). I almost gave up more than once, but I stuck with it since I was dying to see what the colony looked like in all its splendor. Some of the best quests in the game were there too.

I totally get life and distractions getting in the way of gaming lol. I'd been playing XC since early June and just finally wrapped everything up that I wanted to last week (barring Future Connected; taking a brief break before tackling it). Considering you've recently moved, jumping several time zones AND the International Date Line in the process, I daresay nobody blames you for not finishing the game yet. There's a ton of side content outside of the main story anyway. Definitely a meaty game, I sense a future replay.

I've been back in the office since mid-June; my furlough only lasted for a couple of weeks, and I worked from home for the 2 1/2 months before that. The company I work for is very reliant on the restaurant/bar and hospitality industries for most of our revenue, and my state started allowing a (staggered) reopening of some indoor establishments (with many restrictions) starting in late June/early July. My workplace has definitely implemented quite a few new protocols and understandably restricted or discontinued some extras for the time being, such as the free pretzels and the end-of-month birthday donuts.

@Tyranexx Yes I've played Sonic Mania. As a massive fan of the Genesis Sonic games, I absolutely LOVE it! Easily the best Sonic game in recent years. Most of the zones are based on classic zones from Sonic 1, 2, 3, and CD, but they all have remixed layouts so it still feels like its own game. The new zones, as well as the special stages, are really good, too. Its soundtrack is nothing short of excellent, as well. There's also the Encore DLC (that's also bundled with Sonic Mania Plus, the retail version of the game), which adds two more characters and a sort of "second quest" to the game. I also enjoyed that. Given that you're not as big into the Genesis Sonic games as I am though, I'm not sure if you'll like it that much more than Sonic 2. I'd say there's no harm in getting it discounted.

its dangerous to go alone!
take this.

@MarioLover92
I stopped playing Sonic Generations PS3 for quite long due to very dizzy looking running on high speed platformer game.
I have never played any Sonic games so i didn't really enjoy quick runner games like that.
I tend to play a little bit slow like 2D Mario games style so when i have to trigger some quick trigger on Sonic Generations, i was completely clueless which direction should i choose.

@ogo79 started playing loz1 again tn. Thought of you within the first 2 min lol

@Tyranexx Ah, I guess you have to do what you have to do. My family is vaguely taking it seriously but they still went out to a half capacity restaurant and I went with. I can say, I see why AZ is having problems because my family only half taking it seriously looks extreme compared to some of the people I have seen around.

And yes, XC is a very nice and meaty game. I have played it before on the Wii/Wii U so I don't have the same urgency I felt the first time I played it or XC2. But moving has taken up the majority of my time for the last several weeks, and then even what free time I had was tainted by the non-sleep of the worst insomnia of my life. Thankfully that seems to have mostly passed. And my uncle gave me a tin of edibles (those kind) that he also occasionally eats when he has problems sleeping, and they work well when I need them.

Of course, now I am getting a delayed jet lag going on. Regardless of sleep, my internal clock is reversed. so I feel like a sloth during the day and around 8-9pm I start feeling like it is time to be active and vaguely productive. I didn't have this issue when I first moved to Japan because that was right out of university and during university I just didn't have a sleep schedule at all. lol

@MarioLover92 I had an iPod touch at one point too, after my Nano but before my first smartphone.

@WoomyNNYes I haven't earnestly tested it but it seems to work well enough, given the age.

And speaking of dark mode - I thought NL was supposed to be adding that to the website?
Hey @Eel do you know anything about that?

@Heavyarms55 I asked about NL dark mode status in the "ideas for the site thread" today. Antdickens said, "yeah I’d still like to do this. I did start on it but then realized it was more work than first thought 😅".

I'm just a lowly mod, so I would know about anything like that.

hahaha i did my job then.
you were probably like "this reminds me of that crazy guy on nl, i should play something else instead"

@ogo79 exactly what happened. After I got asked to take the sword I went into a fit of rage and smashed my wii u. Ill never be asked that again.....unless.....

@Zuljaras I agree the virus has a few pluses. Honestly, I mostly only joined this website because I was bored. I’m more into gaming as well, and I’m closer to my family.

I just remembered @Apportal bought Clubhouse recently! Are you enjoying it? 😉
(P.S. I hope my new profile pic doesn’t get confused with yours)

@BabyYoshi12 Nice profile pic! It looks exactly like my mini goldendoodle Rosie. So cute!

I'm really enjoying Clubhouse. I didn't think it was my type of game, but it held my interest for a while. My siblings play it non-stop and barely let me have a turn xD I enjoy playing Chess and Checkers, and my little ones like to play Four in a row, and Toy Boxing.

I've played every game now, and even though I don't think it's worth 40$, I'd recommend to anyone who's a fan of compilations. thank's for recommending it to me!